Distinguished feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz turns her attention to a topic long hinted at in feminist politics, but rarely elaborated: the question of time and how it relates to power and subjectivity.
She shows how a deep understanding of the processes of time and change could underpin a whole new generation of scholarship.
In 'Time Travels' distinguished feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz turns her attention to a topic long hinted at in feminist politics, but rarely elaborated: the question of time and how it relates to power and subjectivity.
Grosz draws out the implications of considering time as a positive natural force that orients and directs cultural, social and political life. She shows how this can transform our understanding of biology and nature, politics and power relations, and sexual and gender relations.
In rethinking time, Grosz examines texts and positions that are usually considered outside the scope of feminism: Darwin's evolutionary theory, the writings of Nietzsche on the question of force, conceptions of violence as they are embodied in law, Bergson's understanding of duration, and Deleuze's notion of becoming. She also explores the radical implications of reconceptualising temporality for work on race, sexual difference, identity, pleasure and desire.
Together, the essays in 'Time Travels' demonstrate the breadth and applicability of Grosz's thinking about time as an under-theorised but uniquely productive force.
